Welcome to nzb.is
A new blog about Usenet, NZB indexers, and digital privacy — written for people who already live in the space.
There is no shortage of “What is Usenet?” explainers on the web. This blog is not one of them.
nzb.is is written for people who already have a provider, an indexer or three, and a download stack that mostly runs itself. If terms like Newznab, retention, or completion ratio need no introduction, you are the audience.
What to expect
We will cover the topics that actually move in this space:
- The indexer landscape — new indexers, API changes, closures, and what they mean for your setup.
- Usenet infrastructure — providers, backbones, retention, and the economics behind them.
- VPNs and privacy — what genuinely protects you, what is marketing, and how privacy fits into a Usenet workflow.
- Self-hosting — running your own automation stack, and keeping it private and maintainable.
Posts aim to be useful rather than frequent. No filler, no SEO bait, no rewritten press releases.
Five languages, one blog
Every article is published in English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Use the language switcher in the header — links always stay on the page you are reading.
Follow along
The cleanest way to follow is the RSS feed; each language has its own. New posts land there the moment they are published.
Welcome aboard.